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From: calway@ecsvax.UUCP (James Calloway)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Integrating a home pc with appliances
Message-ID: <557@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 9-Oct-85 23:45:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: ecsvax.557
Posted: Wed Oct  9 23:45:25 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Oct-85 04:05:56 EDT
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Reply-To: calway@ecsvax.UUCP (James Calloway)
Organization: The News and Observer
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A committee of the Electronic Industries Association meets monthly to
develop a standard for what they call the "home bus." This includes
carrier-current signals, infrared, hard wire and spread-spectrum
radio waves. The protocols developed for these "buses" are to be
completely interchangeable with one another and compatible with
all appliances connected to them. 

>>>In article <1913@brl-tgr.ARPA> Fischer.pa@XEROX.ARPA writes:
>To do that you'd need an accepted standard for appliance control (like
>MIDI for music) and a transmit medium.  I would suggest carrier current
>AM on the house wires.  Anything you plugged into your home would (by
>default) be accesable to your home computer control system, also plugged
>into the wall.  Such a thing could be a slow dumb ether for the toys in
>your house to talk on.
>
>(ron)


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